Importing WhisperPlacer thumbnails into ADE - How is this done?

**brianstabinger** · 08-21-2012, 09:44 AM

Hello. I am just getting started with scenery design and all the lovely eccentricities that go along with it. So bare with me...

I like the feel use of ADE, but it seems a bunch of the thumbnails are missing. I downloaded the WhisperPlacer thumbnail pack, and the images and hex (filename between the '{ }') names seem to match those in ADE, except they're in the wrong format, and with the wrong. I can rename each file to match the format of ADE, and this works. For example:

ADE is missing the thumbnail for Barn 2, in the autogen.bgl. Hence:
(after copying 'autogen' folder from WhisperPlacer to ADE 'thumbs' folder)
- Change the name/format of '{0eff56....}.thumb.gif' to '{0eff56....}.jpg'
- Magically the Barn 2 now has an associated tumbnail!

All well and good, but is there a way to batch change these? Or possibly a different way of going about it?

Thanks for any help! Brian.

**mslim** · 09-13-2012, 11:25 AM

Hi Brian,

Mass importation of thumbnails is a problem Scruffy Duck is working on for the next iteration of ADE. Meanwhile try bigthumb.zip in the Flightsim file library. I think it will contain all the autogen files you are missing and a lot more. Otherwise find a sparse airport in FSX ( I use L72 ) and start planting static objects one by one next to the runway and hand capture each thumbnail. (I started with hangars first and then a few objects like gas tanks and gas pumps) It is tedious but will work to get you started.

Hope this helps.

**scruffyduck** · 09-14-2012, 03:28 AM

The Big Thumbnail pack as mentioned above contains thumbnails for all FSX stock objects. Also I am currently working on improving the function in ADE for importing thumbnails from other tools and locations. In the meantime all that is needed is for a thumbnail to contain the GUID (which whisplacer thumbs have in the name) and change the extension to jpg. A bulk file renamer would do that. However I think you will find that the Big Thumbnail pack contains everything you might need for FSX stock objects.

**brianstabinger** · 09-14-2012, 06:46 AM

Thanks, Jon. I was able to rename all the thumbnail/images with GUID, using XnConvert. A little trial and error, but fairly painless. So stock FSX objects, we're all good with.

Now, what to do with the rest...